CVE-2022-26019

8.8 highEPSS 4.5%

High (8.8) in netgate. EPSS 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Improper access control vulnerability in pfSense CE and pfSense Plus (pfSense CE software versions prior to 2.6.0 and pfSense Plus software versions prior to 22.01) allows a remote attacker with the privilege to change NTP GPS settings to rewrite existing files on the file system, which may result in arbitrary command execution.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

8.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-22
Published: 2022-03-31
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

netgate:pfsense
netgate:pfsense_plus

References

https://docs.netgate.com/downloads/pfSense-SA-22_01.webgui.asc
https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN87751554/index.html
https://docs.netgate.com/downloads/pfSense-SA-22_01.webgui.asc
https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN87751554/index.html

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